002. Find Your Mission In Life. It’s important for you to have a deeper purpose to help you get out of bed in the morning. Studies have shown that people who have a deeper purpose have better emotional health, better physical health, and live longer than people who don’t. In this Episode I give you several strategies to help you find a Mission In Life! If you are a student in middle school, or high school I suggest that you try out all the different strategies. Leave no stone unturned!

If you have a College & Career related question, please go to www.yourlifeafterhighschool.com, send me your question and I will read it on the next episode.

Automatic transcript of Episode 002. Finding Your Mission In Life.

Speaker 0 00:00:02 Welcome to your life after high school, the show that helps first-generation middle school, high school students and parents prepare for upcoming college and career decisions. I’m your host. Rick Palo. Think of me as your personal private online college and career counselor. Getting prepared for college can get a little funky sometimes. So let me help you plan your life after high school. Quick call to action here. If you have a college and career related question could be about finance could be about scholarships, could be about college applications. It could be about how to get an intern
Speaker 1 00:00:37 Ship or volunteer opportunities. If you have any question about the college and career process, please go to www.yourlifeafterhighschool.com and click on the, ask me a question button, answer me, give me your question and I’ll read it on the next episode. Welcome to episode two of your life after high school. The show that helps you find your career path that you want with a minimum of student debt. Okay. Last let’s do a recap of episode one. We basically talked about, uh, your legacy, how you want people to view you. So we determined that your legacy is built by the relationships you have with other people. So we’re going to take that learning, uh, one baby step further, and we’re going to work on today, uh, finding your mission in life or finding your deeper purpose. Psychological studies have shown that people who have a deeper sense of purpose tend to have better control over their emotions and their feelings better.
Speaker 1 00:01:41 Ha the people who have a deeper sense of purpose have a higher self-esteem and they also tend to live longer lives. So there are tangible benefits to having a deeper sense of purpose in your life. You will be emotionally healthier. You will be mentally healthier, you’ll be physically healthier and you will live longer. So get, get a mission in life, man, what are you waiting for? All right. So let’s go over some things that, uh, how you could develop a mission in life. You’re like, Oh, I don’t know. Uh, Mr. Palo, I don’t know what I do. I don’t know what to do to find a mission in life. Well, you know what? It’s a journey for everybody. This life is a journey and you’re going to find your own mission in life. But you know, I’m going to give you a short list of things that could help you along the way, as anything in the show, you know, take what works for you and forget the rest.
Speaker 1 00:02:35 But seriously, just look at all these different options. I’m going to give you today. Do the ones that resonate the best with you, that you think that make more sense for you, but Hey, try them all out. You know, give them all a fair shake. You know, like leave no stone unturned. If you’re a middle school student, you’re a high school student, you got a lot of time in the future. You know, you don’t, you’re not like a set. You shouldn’t be set in your ways. You’re very young, you’ve got a lot